Although most search engines don’t explicitly consider a website’s text to HTML ratio as a factor when determining page ranks, maintaining a healthy range does benefit a number of other factors that do play a significant role in search engine results. What is the text to HTML ratio? Quite simply, HTML ratio is the proportion…
Year: 2016
VersionPress Goes Open Source
This past week VersionPress went Open Source. This is great news for WordPress Developers, allowing us to streamline our change history and deploy edits to websites faster and easier than ever. By going Open Source, VersionPress hopes to increase development speed and should be landing on our production sites soon. What is VersionPress? VersionPress brings…
Four Commonly Overlooked WordPress Settings
Over the years, the WordPress community has gone out of its way to provide a simple to use tool that allows users of all levels to manage their websites. Given the number of possible settings and configurations, it’s easy to imagine how we might overlook a few simple options. Here are four such settings that…
How Strong is Your Password?
In a previous post I discussed the importance of Password Security, both in terms of creating a strong password as a user, and encrypting them as a site administrator. In this post I’ll cover the ins and outs of the password strength score in WordPress and WooCommerce. The New Password Requirements Back in October 2013, with the release…